This document provides an overview of yoga, including its origins, history, branches, benefits, and why it is unique. It discusses how yoga originated in ancient India as a practice meant to unite the body, mind and spirit. It has several branches including hatha, raja, karma, bhakti, jnana and tantra yoga. The document outlines scientific evidence that yoga can decrease stress, relieve anxiety, improve heart health, quality of life, fight depression, improve sleep and increase strength and flexibility. It recommends starting a yoga practice using YouTube channels like Shadana yoga and yoga with Adriene.

1. Yoga
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2. Introduction
• 'Yoga' is derived from
the Sanskrit root 'Yuj',
meaning 'to join’ or 'to unite’.
• Yoga is a group of physical,
mental and spiritual practices
or disciplines which originated
in ancient India.
• The aim of Yoga is to bring
balance into the body
physically, mentally and
emotionally. By connecting to
ourselves through the breath
techniques, we can bring our
bodies from a state of unrest
to a place of health.
• The international yoga day,
marked on June 21, since
2015.

3. HISTORYOFYOGA
• yoga practice to be more than 5,000 years old. However, experts say it
could date as far back as 10,000 years.
• The word “yoga” was mentioned for the first time in The Rigveda, an
ancient, holy text used by the Vedic priests.
• yoga was introduced to the Western world when Swami Vivekananda an
Indian monk travelled to the United States to talk about yoga at a meeting
in Chicago in 1893. and by the 1960s yoga had become a very popular
form of exercise in the United States and in Europe.

4. Branchesofyoga
The six branches are:
• Hatha yoga: This is the physical and mental branch designed to prime the body and mind.
• Raja yoga: This branch involves meditation and strict obligation to a series of disciplinary steps known as
the “eight limbs” of yoga.
• Karma yoga: This is a path of service that aims to create a future free from negativity and selfishness.
• Bhakti yoga: This aims to establish the path of loyalty, a positive way to control emotions and improve
acceptance and tolerance.
• Jnana yoga: This branch of yoga is about wisdom, the path of the scholar, and developing the mind
through study.
• Tantra yoga: This is the pathway of ceremony.

5. Benefits of Yoga That Are
Supported by Science:
1. Can Decrease Stress.
2. Relieves Anxiety.
3. Could Improve Heart Health.
4. Improves Quality of Life.
5. May Fight Depression.
6. Could improve Sleep Quality.
7. Improves Flexibility and Balance.
8. Could Help Improve Breathing.
9. Can Increase Strength.

6. WHYYOGAISUNIQUE?
• It costs nothing.
• There is no need for any
equipments.
• It is not a religious
practice nor does it
conflict with any religion
• Yoga is beneficial to body.
• since yoga is gentle,
almost anyone can do it,
regardless of your age or
fitness level.

7. Conclusion
In the conclusion I am going to
recommend you 2 famous channels on
YouTube to start your yoga journey with:
• First: In Arabic channel called Shadana
yoga.
• Second: yoga with Adriene.

8. Q&A
• Whatisyouropinionabout
Yoga?
• Haveyoupracticedyoga?
• Didyounoticeanydifference?